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    <h2>About</h2>
    <p>
        The DeepTalk Conference Explorer will display an indico based conference's 
        slides and posters on a single very large image which supports rapid zooming in. 
        It is designed to make browsing the slides and posters for a conference quick 
        (and fun).</p>
        <h2>Selecting a Conference</h2>
        <p>There are two ways to select a conference. If you see something you are interested in on the home page, just click the link. If you don't, then
        the the URL to the indico agenda, and cut/paste it into the URL at the bottom. If the system already has rendered that conference, then it will
        take you right to the page. Otherwise it will submit a rendering job. You can see what jobs are queued <a href="Queued">here</a>.</p>
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        Viewing</h2>
        <p>Once the page loads for a conference you can zoom in or out using a mouse wheel, or clicking your left mouse button (to zoom in) or cliking
        the small "+" or "-" buttons in the lower right hand corner of the screen. To pan click and drag (with the left mouse button).</p>
        <p>Best experince comes by expanding your browser window to full screen and getting rid or all interface elements and viewing this on
        as large a monitor as possible.</p>
        <p>The viewer is based on Silverlight, which is compatible with Windows (I've tested it in IE, Firebox, Chrome) and the Mac running OSX (I've tested
        it in Safari and Firefox).</p>
        <h2>What can be rendered?</h2>
        <p>Technically, any conference in an indico agenda server can be rendered. The indico system is required because it can dump its complete agenda
        in an XML format which makes it easy to extract the talks. The talks can be in PPT, PDF, and PS formats. There are some limitations to the tool - a
        talk that is very large (the page size is very large - like posters) can make the rendering job run out of memory, for example. But it should recover,
        and if it doesn't then it is a bug and my problem!</p>
        <p>Please do not submit Conferences or Meetings which are not supposed to be public. While most of those are password protected, not all of them are.
        So, please use common sense. If you see something that shouldn't be here, please feel free to send me an 
            <a href="mailto:gwatts@phys.washington.edu">email</a>. I have a stand-alone tool in progress to deal with this - so you can have the render sitting
            on your own PC.</p>
            <h2>Source</h2>
            <p>The complete source code for this project can be found up on <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/DeepTalks">Codeplex</a>. Feel free to submit bug
            reports or feature requests. Totally interesting bugs (to me) is if there is a talk in a particular conference that doesn't show up in the render. For example,
            a known bug right now is that PPTX's don't work (a MIME type issue). If you do submit a bug report like that I need a link to the conference and the
            name of the talk that failed. If you don't want to post a bug report, feel free to send me email directly.</p>
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